The first musical use of the algorithm was in the work May All Your Children Be Acrobats written in 1981 by David A. Jaffe, and scored for eight guitars, mezzo-soprano and computer-generated stereo tape, with a text based on Carl Sandburg's The People, Yes.
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Alex Strong and Kevin Karplus realized that the Karplus-Strong algorithm was physically analogous to a sampling of the transversal wave on a string instrument, with the filter in the feedback loop representing the total string losses over one period.
String instrument | Strong Medicine | string | Four Year Strong | string instrument | Augustus II the Strong | Chemical synthesis | Yonder Mountain String Band | Tara Strong | Juilliard String Quartet | Emerson String Quartet | Tom Strong | Strong Poison | The Incredible String Band | Strong's Concordance | Strong Bad | String section | William Duncan Strong | The String Cheese Incident | synthesis | Strong-billed Honeyeater | Strong AI | Ethel (string quartet) | Cambridge Low Frequency Synthesis Telescope | An American Girl: Chrissa Stands Strong | Strong Vincent | Strong Arm Steady | String (computer science) | Steel-string acoustic guitar | National String Instrument Corporation |
With the occupation and annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany in 1938, Arnold and Else Karplus moved to New York in 1939, following their son Gerhard and their daughter Ruth.
Karplus continued his work at the highest level in theoretical physics for more than 10 years, at Harvard from 1950 to 1954 and then at the University of California, Berkeley, publishing 50 research papers, mostly in QED but also in other areas of physics, including the Hall effect, Van Allen radiation, and cosmic rays.
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Karplus’ new passion coincided, serendipitously, with the post-Sputnik wave of efforts to upgrade US science education.